Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In today's issue, you'll get an update on all the custom 3D assets we've been working on for the capital city of Nisar, plus a peek into our process for creating a fully functional facial rig for our female main character. Game Production / Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The blueprint was already rigged with a Metahuman, and the riding physics seemed perfect for what I needed. I conducted research and gathered references of inspiring chase scenes and other Unreal artists' work. I found a great-looking sports bike in the Unreal Marketplace.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

link] Rigging / Animation. This will allow Allie to remain focused on biz dev and sprint planning and execution while Klaus and Mario tackle our custom rigs and animations. link] Before he can dive right into full animation, Mario needed to first get comfortable using some of our rigs and animation programs. Sound Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Game Production / Rigging / Animation. This sprint, Game Producer Allie continued her work on the rigging and skinning for the revised model of our female main character, ensuring its skeleton and controls were sound. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. link] Sound Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Rigging / Animation. For the past few weeks, our Lead Animator, Klaus, has been diligently working on skinning and rigging our new player character to get her ready to be implemented into Unreal Engine and kicking some major ass in the Kristala game build. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

One perk of Law is that even if a spell is outside your Jurisdiction, you can rig the laws to allow it anyway: There's a lot of great properties there. In fighting game parlance, that's known as an "option select," which is also the name of a Puzzle Strike chip!) They both cost 2 gold, and they give you some decent defenders.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

link] Rigging / Animation. First, Allie kicked things off by checking the textures for our mid-grade Kota Soldier variant in Unreal Engine as she preps each of the three variants for rigging and animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Sound Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

It may not seem like it would be a difficult piece of the game-dev puzzle to figure out, but we've struggled to make the fog in our demo level look realistic without also causing sight issues for players in game. link] Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

link] Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. In the meantime, here's a look at our updated weapon trails Rodrigo was able to work on this sprint outside of his work on the boss fight. Check out this recap video from 2019's con to get a feel for what kind of vibe and energy you can expect at Play NYC.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

link] Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Locate pebbles and bricks made of Tiger's Eye throughout the game and cash them in on the Feline Skill Tree to boost your skill level and acquire new skills you don't already have. link] [link] Kristala Original Soundtrack.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Beyond the menu/tutorial updates, Rodrigo spent a large portion of time this month reviewing our damage system, solving bugs, implementing stats components in C++, and updating the Kristala project to Unreal Engine 4.27.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Over the past few weeks, our Animation team has been working hard to replace a bunch of our existing, stand-in animations—for both our player character and all our enemy NPCs—with custom movements crafted in 3DSMax.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

link] Rigging / Animation. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. After performing some testing, Rodrigo also tweaked the strength the Soldiers' attacks to prevent them from being overpowered. Please enjoy the following clips showing off the custom movements Mario started on this month: Walk Cycle Sequence. Death Sequence.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The parasite model we’ll use in this game is downloaded from www.mixamo.com : Mixamo is a really useful site for game developer becuase all the 3D models are free, plus you can animate them and you can even upload your own 3D models, rig them, and animate them.

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